"The chief business of the American people," Calvin Coolidge famously said, "is business." But voters have never been sold on the idea of a businessman in the White House. In theory, yes, why not run the government like a business? But candidates from Henry Ford to Ross Perot to Herman Cain can testify that voters don't fully buy that argument.
Mitt Romney's case is a little different. He was a governor as well as a businessman, and he was a management consultant and venture capitalist--which is very different from the CEO types who have sought the Oval Office. You could argue...